Originally aired as Salon #485 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna speculates that the human break with nature came about due to a change in the climate, and explores the implications of this rupture for the modern condition.

"The world is magic, not a little bit, one hundred percent. Every atom from one end of this cosmos to the other is magic, magic, magic." "Fate has chosen you to hear about [DMT]. If you now go ahead..."

0 track of the Psychedelic Salon. The main difference between Salon 3.0 and the earlier podcasts from the salon is that this 3.0 track on Patreon.com will be where you will hear the programs three months before they…

Roughly one hour of video from the 1989 weekend Terence McKenna shared with Amazon explorer and medicinal-plant researcher Nicole Maxwell. This is an EXCERPT: Sound Photosynthesis catalogued the complete event as a seven-and-a-half-hour set (5 audio cassettes #A478-89 / 4 video cassettes #V192-89). For the fuller record see "Amazonian Shamanism (Complete Weekend) [ft. Nicole Maxwell]" in this collection, which holds 6 hours 24 minutes of audio from the same weekend -- the two do not overlap, so they are complementary rather than duplicate.